Wednesday | October 23, 2019 | 7 pm
Discounted tickets are available for students and seniors at $20; please contact the Merkin Hall box office at 212-501-3330 Socrates Now is a 90-minute solo performance-discourse, led by award-winning actor, director, and producer, Yannis Simonides, which captures the essence of Socratic ethics whil…
Thursday | October 24, 2019 | 7 pm
String Fling Your exclusive preview to the world’s premier classical music performed by today’s celebrated musicians. Allison Charney, soprano and host With Craig Ketter, piano Guest Artists Eriko Sato, violin Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin Donna Weng Friedman, piano David Oei, piano and He…
(classical, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Saturday | October 26, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Ecstatic Music's 10th Season! Read a review of Fanm d'Ayiti in The Nation. Composer/performer Nathalie Joachim and Spektral Quartet perform Joachim’s Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti), an evening-length work for voice, flute, string quartet and electronics. A celebration of…
(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Sunday | October 27, 2019 | 3 pm
Up close and personal. An Ensembles concert provides an intimate connection between musician and audience. Hear the individual talents that make up the Orchestra. Experience the passion and personality of the performers. And see how a small setting can make for a huge musical event. CONCERT Program …
(classical, season-highlights)
Sunday | October 27, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Talent is born. Musicians are made. Join us as Orpheus Rising presents a series of in-depth conversations and masterclasses with world-renowned musicians as they discuss their artistic journey, and work with some of today's brightest young musical talent. Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster Dav…
(classical)
Monday | October 28, 2019 | 7:30 pm
From Peter Pan to Gypsy Rose Lee, explore the depiction of children in Broadway musicals like Matilda, Peter Pan, Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, School of Rock, Charlie Brown and Gypsy. The mixed cast of adults and children includes Farah Alvin (It Shoulda Been You)…
(musical-theater, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Tuesday | October 29, 2019 | 2 pm
Experience the energy and passion of some of today's most remarkable young classical performers at Tuesday Matinees! “…rhythmic vivacity…great sensitivity” – The Strad A young artist of uncommon musical depth and versatility, clarinetist Yoonah Kim is the wi…
(classical, new-music, season-highlights)
Tuesday | October 29, 2019 | 7:30 pm
From Peter Pan to Gypsy Rose Lee, explore the depiction of children in Broadway musicals like Matilda, Peter Pan, Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, School of Rock, Charlie Brown and Gypsy. The mixed cast of adults and children includes Farah Alvin (It Shoulda Been You)…
(musical-theater, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Wednesday | October 30, 2019 | 8 pm
Student and Senior tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the box office. Patricia Spencer, flute Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet Curtis Macomber, violin Chris Gross, cello Steven Beck, piano Guest artists: Marisa Karchin, soprano John Ferrari, percussion Louis Karchin, conductor Join us for a program…
(, classical)
Monday | November 4, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Listen to iconic masterpieces with new ears as NPR & PBS music commentator, conductor, composer, author and pianist Rob Kapilow shows you what you've been missing! Featuring Broadway Stars Sally Wilfert & Michael Winther In a field where composers routinely collaborated with many differe…
(musical-theater, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Wednesday | November 6, 2019 | 8 pm
A 90-minute concert exploring the relationship between music and memory. Works include Richard Strauss’s devastating late masterpiece for strings, Jessie Montgomery’s profound 21st-century tribute to the national anthem, and Henri Dutilleux’s ethereal, Proustian work for cimbalom, …
(classical)
Sunday | November 10, 2019 | 4 pm
Oboe, String Trio & Piano An die Musik has inspired audiences with their “ardent impetuosity, musical integrity and fiery instrumental brilliance.” – New York Times Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Handel/Halvorsen and Schubert Mark Peskanov, violin Nicholas Mann, viola Thomas Demen…
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | November 11, 2019 | 7:30 pm
This 100-year survey of gay and lesbian writers and characters on Broadway from 1920-2020 chronicles the long transformation from closeted writers and coded imagery on Broadway to more open depictions of gay and lesbian experience beginning in the 1970s and 80s. Featuring songs by Cole Porter, Noel …
(musical-theater, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Tuesday | November 12, 2019 | 7:30 pm
This 100-year survey of gay and lesbian writers and characters on Broadway from 1920-2020 chronicles the long transformation from closeted writers and coded imagery on Broadway to more open depictions of gay and lesbian experience beginning in the 1970s and 80s. Featuring songs by Cole Porter, Noel …
(musical-theater, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Saturday | November 16, 2019 | 7 pm
Hyung Dong Park, M.D., conductor Evan Wang, pianist North American Medical Orchestra is formed by mainly medical professionals and supporting musicians. The purpose of NAMO is to be a bridge in connecting their talent and love of music to the other side of the world, especially for those who are med…
(classical)
Monday | November 18, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Great Singers! Great Broadway Show Tunes! NO MICROPHONES! An exciting cross section of New York's greatest singing stars will take the Merkin Concert Hall stage on Monday, November 18 at 7:30 PM to perform famous Broadway show tunes the way they used to be sung during the Great White Way's G…
(musical-theater)
Tuesday | November 19, 2019 | 8 pm
Two powerful, neglected theater works by a pair of masters, both on the theme of resisting injustice. With soprano Sari Gruber, mezzo-soprano Rebecca Jo Loeb, tenor Alex Manoori, baritone John Brancy, and pianists Michael Barrett and Steven Blier.
(new-music, musical-theater, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
Saturday | November 23, 2019 | 8 pm
Glenn Dicterow, the legendary former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, will join Pegasus: The Orchestra’s concertmaster, Eiko Kano, to perform Bach's Double Violin Concerto; Karén Hakobyan will conduct. The program will open with the World Premiere of Hakobyan’s…
Sunday | November 24, 2019 | 3 pm
Up close and personal. An Ensembles concert provides an intimate connection between musician and audience. Hear the individual talents that make up the Orchestra. Experience the passion and personality of the performers. And see how a small setting can make for a huge musical event. Concert Program …
(classical, season-highlights)
Monday | November 25, 2019 | 2 pm
Dynamic Duos Your exclusive preview to the world’s premier classical music performed by today’s celebrated musicians. Allison Charney, soprano and host With Craig Ketter, piano Guest Artists Victor Starsky, tenor Peter Seidenberg, cello Joel Fan, piano Hui-Mei Lin, piano Christine Eggert…
(classical, vocal-performance, season-highlights)
